All Stars Junior Community A Positive Behavior Development Program for After School Settings

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2. 2 All Stars Junior CommunityA Positive Behavior Development Program for After School Settings Dana C. Bishop Tanglewood Research William B. Hansen, Ph.D. President Tanglewood Research

3. 3 Why After School Programs? After school programs are charged with providing structured activities for youth. After school programs are in a unique position to positively impact youth.

4. 4 How does All Stars Junior Help preadolescent youth?

5. 5 After-School Social Development All Stars Junior Community

6. 6 Target Population Children ages 9 to 11 who meet in a group setting

7. 7 Overview Fifteen 25-minute interactive group activities Celebration of completion of program Parent/Adult component

8. 8 Research Findings

9. 9 ALL STARS Jr Activities Related to Social Norms for Behavior Getting Along Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? How Can We Get Along Better?

10. 10 Getting Along Activity Youth are asked to write down things that help and hurt getting along. The class votes on whether the behaviors listed help or hurt getting along. A master list of getting along behaviors is created for a poster to be used throughout the program.

11. 11 Sample Getting Along Poster

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13. 13 Getting Along Cartoon

14. 14 Positive Character Having positive character is inconsistent with risky behaviors. All Stars Junior Community focuses on six character words.

15. 15 Research Findings

16. 16 Character Words Activities in All Stars Junior discuss six character words in fun and engaging activities.

17. 17 ALL STARS Activities Related  to Promoting Character Character Words Character Word Guessing Game Character Word Scavenger Hunt Character Art

18. 18 Character Words Activity Youth introduce themselves by drawing a stick figure of themselves with something that distinguishes them (e.g., glasses, hair). Youth are introduced to the character words and the meanings are discussed. Youth add speech balloons to their drawings that portrays a character word.

19. 19 Character Cartoons Youth are asked to add a speech balloon to their stick figure depicting a character word. The example below shows �caring.�

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21. 21 Character Word Guessing Game The Character Word Guessing Game divides youth into teams. The facilitator reads a description of a character word. Each team tries to guess the character word being described.

22. 22 Let's Play The Character Word Guessing Game!

23. 23 Character Word Scavenger Hunts The Character Word Scavenger Hunts are take home activities for youth. Each hunt focuses on different character words. Each hunt asks youth to keep track of things they do that show good character. The �Who Is Here?� Scavenger Hunt is played during All Stars Jr. to help youth understand how the character word hunts work.

24. 24 Character Word Scavenger Hunts

25. 25 Character Art Activity

26. 26 Positive Social Behavior All Stars Junior involves youth in group activities that help youth how to get along with peers.

27. 27 ALL STARS Jr. Activities Promoting Positive Behavior

28. 28 Getting Along Charades

29. A Walk in the Park

30. 30 A Walk in the Park

31. 31 Preparing to Self Monitor Behaviors

32. 32 Example from Tara's Story

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34. 34 Youth are put into small groups and are given a short story to read. The stories are about kids who do things that make it harder to get along. Teams come up with endings where characters do things that help get along. Teams act out alternative endings.

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37. 37 CELEBRATION!

39. 39 This is an optional activity in All Stars Junior. Youth are challenged to complete all take home assignments in All Stars Junior. Youth who complete each take home assignment are given a reward.

40. 40 Parental/Adult Attention Nurture a loving relationship Supervise and monitor Use positive discipline Encourage positive friends, activities and ideals Set, communicate, and enforce rules and expectations Provide a positive example

41. 41 Bonding A young person�s feelings of attachment or belonging to positive friends and adult role models who disapprove of risky behaviors.

42. 42 ALL STARS Junior Activities Relatedto Parental Attentiveness and Bonding Small Group and Partner Work Interactive and Engaging Activities Setting Getting Along Standards Adult/Child Take-Home Assignments Parent/Guardian Letters

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44. 44 Investment in ALL STARS Jr. Community All Stars Jr. Community Teacher Manual Cost: $40 Online training, two 2-hour modules Cost: $150 Consumable Youth Materials Cost: $40 (for 10 youth)

45. 45 Preliminary Field Results

46. 46 Pretest to Post-test Changes  Non-Aggression

47. 47 Pretest to Post test Change  in Forgiveness

48. 48 Pretest to Post test Change  in Honesty Field results from community groups using the program resulted in an increase in honesty.

49. 49 Best of All� Kids and parents love ALL STARS Junior!

50. 50 Funding Opportunity 21st Century Learning Communities grants. http://www2.ed.gov/programs/21stcclc/applicant.html Contact for North Carolina is: Marguerite Peebles (919-807-3942) Email: mpeebles@dpi.state.nc.us

51. 51 NCCAP Website NCCAP provides links to funding opportunities. You can visit the list at http://www.nccap.net/funding/tools.cfm

52. 52 For More Information on All Stars Junior Community Visit our website at http://www.allstarsprevention.com Contact Dana Bishop at 336-662-0090 ext. 113

53. 53 Thank you!